House File 525 H-1273 Amend the amendment, H-1218, to House File 525 as 1 follows: 2 1. Page 1, by striking lines 2 through 12 and 3 inserting: 4 < ___. Page 2, line 15, after < insurance. > by 5 inserting < However, for each fiscal year, this 6 paragraph shall not apply to public employees 7 represented by a certified employee organization 8 who are teachers licensed under chapter 272 and who 9 are employed by a public employer which is a school 10 district or area education agency if the average salary 11 of teachers in the state was ranked below twenty-fifth 12 in the country in a nationally recognized study 13 comparing state average teacher salaries among all 14 fifty states released in the previous fiscal year. >> 15 ______________________________ KEARNS of Lee -1- H1218.1420 (1) 84 je/rj 1/ 1 #1.